What does "Marmite Gun" mean?
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Lloyd
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@Will Hewland That’s so true!
About 13 years ago, I being a Lancashire man, working as an interim production manager for a subcontract Engineering company in Cornwall, speaking to a Welsh machinist had to have a Cornishman interpreter to discuss an engineering drawing. I’m serious!
Now I work for an scientific instruments manufacturer in Oxford, and I can understand the Brazilian field applications scientist, the German microbiologist, the Malaysian senior scientist and the South African software engineer more easily than I can understand the Irish CEO
About 13 years ago, I being a Lancashire man, working as an interim production manager for a subcontract Engineering company in Cornwall, speaking to a Welsh machinist had to have a Cornishman interpreter to discuss an engineering drawing. I’m serious!
Now I work for an scientific instruments manufacturer in Oxford, and I can understand the Brazilian field applications scientist, the German microbiologist, the Malaysian senior scientist and the South African software engineer more easily than I can understand the Irish CEO
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Wonko the Sane
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I presume "gear" is a good thing?So, WHO learns you yer gear english then ?
Beyond paying attention in school I couldn't say. Maybe writing more college papers than I care to remember and a few hundred contract proposals helped.
I am not picking sides in this linguistic dispute, but I overheard a great new word when on holiday in the US. We were in the Rocky mountains so at a bit of altitude . Anyway this young girl was praising her mother for how well she had "acclimatated" to the increase in altitude.
However when it comes to the English language being crucified. I worked in a university department where one on the servitors was from Chorley in Lancashire ? ... Lets just say a translator would have been handy :lol: I also worked with a lovely wee lassie from the Welsh valleys. I could not understand a word she said for the better part... see :lol: As far as I remember every sentence ended with the word "see"... see :lol:
However when it comes to the English language being crucified. I worked in a university department where one on the servitors was from Chorley in Lancashire ? ... Lets just say a translator would have been handy :lol: I also worked with a lovely wee lassie from the Welsh valleys. I could not understand a word she said for the better part... see :lol: As far as I remember every sentence ended with the word "see"... see :lol:
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westley
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I am in a fishing club in Horwich, near Chorley, Lancashire. I go to the monthly meetings and rarely have a clue as to what is being said. I held a conversation with a member at the fishery on one occasion, it must have lasted around 30 minutes without my understanding a word that he said. Mind you, I was born and bred in Liverpool and I am at a loss to understand Liverpool people either..............................maybe it's cos I'm deaf ???
Lloyd
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This might not be the best time to admit that I was born and brought up in Coppull, a small village just two miles south of Chorley.
my girlfriend is Welsh. She can’t understand me much either.
Perhaps that’s why we get along so well
my girlfriend is Welsh. She can’t understand me much either.
Perhaps that’s why we get along so well
ips
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I used to live in coppull when i was married to the first mrs nutjob.This might not be the best time to admit that I was born and brought up in Coppull, a small village just two miles south of Chorley.
my girlfriend is Welsh. She can’t understand me much either.
Perhaps that’s why we get along so well
Lloyd
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This is getting a bit surreal.I used to live in coppull when i was married to the first mrs nutjob.
I moved out of Coppull after divorcing MrsPNutJob1 and ended up in Cornwall and married MrsPNutJob2 and divorced soon after moving to Wiltshire.
Now in Northamptonshire with a lovely (sane) Welsh lady. So... Yes... Northamptonshire... well, I guess you can’t have everything, can you?
I recognise this is probably making me sound like an embittered, misogynistic grumpy old tw...it.
I have no defence.
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Will Hewland
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Good thread drift into wife sanity ratings. 
True and recent story: After giving my wife a bloody good listening to I suggested to her that she should “find somebody else then”. Her immediate response was “No, I can’t be bothered to train another one”
True and recent story: After giving my wife a bloody good listening to I suggested to her that she should “find somebody else then”. Her immediate response was “No, I can’t be bothered to train another one”
ips
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Defo surreal.This is getting a bit surreal.
I moved out of Coppull after divorcing MrsPNutJob1 and ended up in Cornwall and married MrsPNutJob2 and divorced soon after moving to Wiltshire.
Now in Northamptonshire with a lovely (sane) Welsh lady. So... Yes... Northamptonshire... well, I guess you can’t have everything, can you?
I recognise this is probably making me sound like an embittered, misogynistic grumpy old tw...it.
I have no defence.
I was on preston rd 1989 - 1992 then bought new build in 1992 at moss bank end of park rd until 97 when 1st mrs nutjob and i parted company on very very unamicable terms. Been with current mrs ips since 98....now live 3 miles away due west.. ..for the reckord current mrs ips is a keeper as my good friend westley will confirm
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You mention Wiltshire, I grew up near calne in the 60s as my dad was RAF regular stationed at compton basset
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Lloyd
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Good lord! I lived in Corsham. My children go to Box Primary.Defo surreal.
I was on preston rd 1989 - 1992 then bought new build in 1992 at moss bank end of park rd until 97 when 1st mrs nutjob and i parted company on very very unamicable terms. Been with current mrs ips since 98....now live 3 miles away due east....for the reckord current mrs ips is a keeper as my good friend westley will confirm
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You mention Wiltshire, I grew up near calne in the 60s as my dad was RAF regular stationed at compton basset
’tis indeed as they say, a small world
Wonko the Sane
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/acclimate
Cambridge seems to like it as well.
Which would have been fine if "acclimated" was the word she used... I don't think acclimatated is a word recognized by any English dictionaries.
Wonko the Sane
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OK - I misread you. I share your pain 
hew: That form you show is one that I've heard applied to other words and a usage that I find particularly repellent. Seems to be a fave usage by the willfully ignorant poseurs of erudition.
hew: That form you show is one that I've heard applied to other words and a usage that I find particularly repellent. Seems to be a fave usage by the willfully ignorant poseurs of erudition.
Wonko the Sane
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OK - so got me wondering. Here's something similar but I find nothing for "acclimatated" which seems to not be a word
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Orientate is standard in British English, you orientate something when you point it in a particular direction, hence orientated. In American English, you orient something, hence oriented.
englishplus.com/grammar suggests it is more widely accepted in the UK than in the US but should be avoided in formal writing. I found similar comments at wordwizard.com. I don't have the tools to do the formal statistical analysis, but growing up in the UK I don't think I ever heard anyone say the shorter form, hence my assertion that it is standard. I should probably have said more common in British English, and would love to see the stats if anyone can provide them.
the above is from
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11874/oriented-vs-orientated
and I still find it really bothersome to hear
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Orientate is standard in British English, you orientate something when you point it in a particular direction, hence orientated. In American English, you orient something, hence oriented.
englishplus.com/grammar suggests it is more widely accepted in the UK than in the US but should be avoided in formal writing. I found similar comments at wordwizard.com. I don't have the tools to do the formal statistical analysis, but growing up in the UK I don't think I ever heard anyone say the shorter form, hence my assertion that it is standard. I should probably have said more common in British English, and would love to see the stats if anyone can provide them.
the above is from
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11874/oriented-vs-orientated
and I still find it really bothersome to hear
